Rare vase zoomorphe en forme de poisson tilapia, la nageoire dorsale incisée, la caudale formant goulot.
Terre cuite.
Égypte, Nagada II, ca. 3500-3200 avant J.-C.
L. 19,5 cm
Provenance:
Galerie Nefer, Zurich, juillet 1983.
Collection Giancarlo Ligabue.
Publication:
Animali e Mito nel Vicino Oriente Antico, Trebaselegue, 2008, p. 231, n° 2.
Bibliographie:
J. Vandier, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne, tome I, Paris, 1952, pp. 310-312, fig. 217.
J. Cr. Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1993, p. 34, n° 108-109.
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